from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib
print get_python_lib()

ipython

• IPython itself is focused on interactive Python, part of which is providing a Python kernel for Jupyter.
• Support for interactive data visualization and use of GUI toolkits.
• Flexible, embeddable interpreters to load into your own projects.
• Easy to use, high performance tools for parallel computing.

how to install ipython on unbuntu?

pip install ipython # to make the version newer
sudo apt-get install ipython

Jupyter notebook or IPython notebook

• Code can produce rich output such as images, videos, LaTeX, and JavaScript.
• has support for over 40 programming languages
• Leverage big data tools

install sciPy

sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy python-matplotlib ipython ipython-notebook python-pandas python-sympy python-nose